Police: Knife threat at bar leads to man's arrest

A man was arrested on a felonious assault charge early Jan. 8 after a report of a knife-wielding man at the White Rhino Sports Bar on Seven Mile.

The incident was reported about 12:30 a.m., a Redford Police Department report said. No injuries were reported.

A bouncer told police that a man he had kicked out of the bar while quelling a disturbance returned a short time later, opened the door and pointed a knife at him and another man, who were standing in the vestibule. The knife was partially covered by the sleeve of the man's jacket, the bouncer said, but the blade was visible.

The bouncer said he quickly slammed the door on the knife-wielding man. The other victim said the man had asked him and the bouncer if they were "pigs."

The bouncer said he called police a few minutes later after spotting the man who had had the knife in the alley behind the bar.

An officer located the suspect a few blocks from the bar, but police found no knife on him. Police did find a knife in an alley near the bar.

Home burglaries

• Two TV sets and a video game console were reported stolen from a house on Beech Daly near Five Mile after a Jan. 7 burglary.

It also appeared that food had been cooked and the oven left on, the complainant told police.

The burglary occurred between about 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., a police report said. There were no signs of forced entry.

• Hand tools were reported stolen from a house on Five Points north of Puritan after a Jan. 7 burglary.

The break-in occurred between about 8-8:30 p.m., the victim told police. Police said the back door had been forced open, the door jamb broken.

• A bedroom was ransacked and a watch reported stolen in the Jan. 8 burglary of a house on Centralia near Plymouth Road.

The victim told police he was away from the house between about 4-8:30 p.m. and came home to find his bedroom ransacked and a window in another room broken out.

No other rooms in the house appeared to have been disturbed, police said, and the man said he'd notify police if he discovered anything else had been stolen.

Marijuana citation

A man who said he had fallen asleep after stopping to gas up his car was cited for marijuana possession Jan. 7.

Police were called to the BP station at Plymouth Road and Beech Daly late that morning on a report of a man slumped over the steering wheel of a car.

The man was awake in a Chrysler 200 when an officer arrived. He refused medical assistance and said he had been traveling between jobs, stopped for gas and must've fallen asleep, a police report said.

The officer smelled marijuana when the man exited the car and, during a pat-down search, found a scale with suspected marijuana residue on it in a pocket of the man's pants, police said.

The man told the officer there might be marijuana in the car, and a drug-sniffing dog found a cigarette pack with a plastic bag of suspected marijuana in it under the driver's seat, plus bits of suspected marijuana cigarettes in the ashtray, police said.

The Chrysler was impounded; the suspect was ticketed for marijuana possession, possession of narcotics paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license, then released at the scene.

Car theft

A woman reported the theft of her 2001 Cadillac DeVille from the driveway of a house on Centralia near Puritan on Monday.

The woman told police that she had just obtained a temporary plate for the car and parked it in the driveway around noon Monday, then discovered about 1 p.m. that it was missing, police said.

Police said all the keys had been accounted for and the woman had not given anyone permission to drive the car.